With Noemi Magnani, Paul North, Kate Warlow-Corcoran and Michael Bavidge

Join The Philosopher for an informal, philosophical chat with members of our Editorial Team. Bring your philosophical questions*, and we will try our best to offer some engaging responses. This session, we will be joined by panelists Paul North, Kate Warlow-Corcoran, and Michael Bavidge, chaired by Noemi Magnani.

Paul North is Maurice Natanson Professor of German at Yale, where he teaches critical theory. His books include Bizarre Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness (Zone Books 2022) and The Standpoint of Marx’s Capital (Forthcoming). He is also co-editor of the new English edition of Marx’s Capital (Volume 1, Princeton 2024; Volume 2, forthcoming 2028).

Kate Warlow-Corcoran is a Managing Editor at The Philosopher and is currently running our Philosophy of Hope reading group.  She co-edited the December 2025 issue of our publication, Crossing the Floods. Her interests include moral psychology and the philosophy of emotion.  She has a particular interest in the work of 20th century German philosopher Theodor Adorno.

Michael Bavidge is the President of The Philosophical Society of England (PSE), the charity which sponsors The Philosopher. A former lecturer at Newcastle University, he worked at the Centre for Lifelong Learning and then the university's Philosophical Studies Programme. He wrote on psychopathy and the law, pain and suffering, and animal minds.

Noemi Magnani is a professor at the University of Warwick and a Managing Editor at The Philosopher. Her research interests encompass political philosophy, ethics, gender, and the history of political thought, with a focus on the relationship between liberalism, multiculturalism, autonomy, and vulnerability.

*Registrants are invited and encouraged to submit a question in advance to this google form.